Ambedkar: A Life Shashi Tharoor Aleph Book Company Rs.599 Pages 226
This book is about the confrontation between Gandhi and Ambedkar, a profound disagreement on the status of Dalits in free, independent India
India’s uniquely successful freedom movement in last few decades of British Raj over the subcontinent was almost entirely due to the generalship and masterful […]
India’s undeclared emergency: Constitutionalism & the Politics of Resistance Arvind Narrain Westland publications Rs.699, Pages 235
The merry month of May was significant for coronations in Britain, our erstwhile colonial master nation, and in its crown jewel, India. On May 6, King Charles III, a long-time prince in waiting, was crowned King of England and Head […]
India’s tipping point S. Narendra Bloomsbury India Rs.699 Pages 212
In this biography, the author details how prime minister Narasimha Rao unshackled the Indian economy by stealth
During the past 76 years since India wrested freedom from almost 200 years of British rule, P.V. Narasimha Rao (PVNR, 1921-2004) was undoubtedly the greatest of India’s 14 prime ministers. […]
Victory City Salman Rushdie Alfred A Knopf Rs.519 Pages 352
An engaging novel about the founding and ultimate fate of the Vijayanagar empire (called Bisnaga) after a European mispronounces it
On August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was due to speak at the Chautauqua Institution in New York State. Shortly after the speakers ascended the stage, a […]
The Anatomy of Hate Revati Laul Westland Books Rs.1,499 Pages 220
The author has chosen to study three individuals who swiftly meld into mobs, to understand the circumstances and motivations that make them ready tools of politicians and revivalists
In recent years, there has been an increasing tendency of enraged vigilante groups running amok, creating havoc and […]
The Digital Ape: how to live (in peace) with smart machines Nigel Shadbolt & Roger Hampson Manjul Publishing House Rs.354 Pages 90
We are reassuringly told that AI actually is poor at “commonsense reasoning”, and while they are superhuman in completing certain tasks, they are “overall bad at generalising”
I could not be Hindu: The story of a Dalit in the RSS Bhanwar Meghwanshi Navayana Publishing Rs.399 Pages 240
The author shares his experience with the RSS and the reasons why he quit this organisation, the ideological mentor of the BJP, which rules at the Centre
This is an autobiography in which the author shares his […]
Gautam adani: reimagining business in india & the world
R.N. Bhaskar
PENGUIN
Rs.699 Pages 311
One hopes that this biography will persuade the citizenry into believing that 21st century India needs 1,000×2 As (Ambani & Adani) to fulfill its full potential
This is a timely, well-researched and engagingly written biography on this eponymous business tycoon who since […]
Economist Gandhi: The Roots & the relevance of the political economy of the Mahatma Jaithirth Rao PENGUIN PORTFOLIO Rs.599 Pages 256
The centrepiece of the book is a radical re-evaluation of the crucial concept of trusteeship, which according to Rao contests the conventional view that Gandhi was opposed to capitalism
SMALLER CITIZENS: WRITINGS ON THE MAKING OF INDIAN CITIZENS Krishna Kumar ORIENT BLACKSWAN Rs.395 Pages 149
The author’s insights help to locate the child within socio-political complexities while understanding education in India and its intersection with citizenship
KRISHNA Kumar’s deep and critical engagement with education and its impact on the child is clearly reflected in this slim […]
In this book published by the Malala Fund established by Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, girl children who have struggled to acquire education write first-hand accounts
WHENEVER I imagine war, images of the aftermath come to mind. Everything is scattered and I can see only people and things that have somehow survived bombings. I can feel the […]
RENOWNED mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik has selected 72 tales, mainly from India’s rich mythology, and used them as a canvas on which to paint the 21st century.
THE STORIES WE TELL: MYTHOLOGY TO MAKE SENSE OF MODERN LIVES
Devdutt Pattanaik
ALEPH BOOK COMPANY
Rs.499 Pages 199
This collection of engaging anecdotes originates from Pattanaik’s webcast Teatime Tales. Why […]
THEY FOUND WHAT? STORIES OF DARING DISCOVERIES BY INDIAN SCIENTISTS
THEY MADE WHAT? STORIES OF INGENIOUS INVENTIONS BY INDIAN SCIENTISTS
Shweta Taneja; HACHETTE INDIA; Rs.399; 288 pp
HERE’S A welcome addition to popular-science writing for children in India. Shweta Taneja, the author, is passionate about familiarising children with the wonders of modern science and scientists, and has been […]
HIMALAYAN CHALLENGE: INDIA, CHINA AND THE QUEST FOR PEACE
Subramanian Swamy
RUPA
Rs.595 Pages 240
WITH THE just concluded 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) making global headlines, this is a good time to review Subramanian Swamy’s slim but informative book which suggests ways and means to mend Sino-India ties, slowly but […]
Tagore’s first experience of village life and close observation of the glaring poverty of the peasantry planted the seed of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Nabanipa Bhattarcharjee (The Book Review)
A HISTORY OF SRINIKETAN: RABINDRANATH TAGORE’S PIONEERING WORK IN RURAL RECONSTRUCTION Uma Das Gupta NIYOGI BOOKS Rs.450 Pages 234
In-depth research and scholarship have made this book a fascinating account of the role of intelligence services in China during the turbulent past century, writes Parimal Maya Sudhakar
Chinese Spies: From chairman Mao to Xi Jinping
Roger Faligot
Harper Collins
Rs.699
616 pages
The rise of a nation in international politics is measured by its hard and […]
The first Indian language translation novel awarded the Booker Prize (2022) is notable for its sweeping imagination and power of language, writes Alka Saraogi
The deep yearning for unity, justice and freedom of Arab people united by religion has invariably been thwarted in The Arabs: A History, writes Dilip Thakore
The Arabs: A History Eugene Rogan Penguin Random House Rs.899 Pages 718
Although an estimated 7.6 million Indian citizens and people of Indian origin are employed throughout Middle East countries, especially […]
Watershed: how we destroyed india’s water & how we can save it, written by Mridula Ramesh, published by Hachette india is priced at Rs.699. A compelling narrative that traces India’s water history over 4,000 years to highlight a grave crisis confronting latter-day India, writes Mohammad Imtiyaz
Mridula Ramesh’s compelling work traces the trajectory of India’s water […]
A Brief History of Equality, written by Thomas Piketty, published by Harvard University Press is priced at Rs.799. Economist Thomas Piketty summarises his previous works to make his research accessible to a wider audience, writes TCA Ranganathan
Professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and associate chair at the Paris […]
Opium Inc, written by Thomas Manuel, published by Harper Collins piblications is priced at Rs.599. The book is an The Crown, Indian farmers, merchants, ship-builders and sepoys were heavily involved in the opium trade forcibly imposed on imperial China
It’s a matter of speculation whether the intractable issue of demarcation of the 484-km Sino-Indian border which […]
The Three Khans, written by Kaveree Bamzai, published by Westland books publications is priced at Rs.599. A compelling narrative of the careers of Bollywood’s three Khans — major figures of the Hindi film industry
Ramachandra Guha is one of few historians to have considered with any degree of seriousness the role of Hindi cinema in keeping […]
Keeping in Touch, written by Anjali Joseph, published by Westland piblications is priced at Rs.599. The book is an expertly written novel that transports the reader into myriad cultural scenarios of north-east India and London.
Keeping in Touch by award-winning novelist Anjali Joseph is a love story centering around Keteki Sharma and Ved Ved in their […]
Arzu written by Riva Razdan, published by Hachette India, is priced at Rs.399, addresses complex issues that concern young girls — marriage and relationships, education, family and sex, writes Ilika Trivedi
Arzu is essentially a coming-of-age story but the charm of the book is that it beautifully captures the process of growth, change and hard work, […]
In his new book, Congress party politician Jairam Ramesh transports us to a time of remarkable consequence for contemporary India. While the author inserts a caveat that the book must be read as a biography of a committed and profoundly sagacious […]
Afterlives is the latest book from Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Nobel laureate for literature, 2021. His novels predominantly focus on the themes of displacement, colonisation, migration, identity and slavery. In an essay published in 2004, Gurnah explains that his own hardships, anxiety, state terror and humiliation, as […]
A new cold war: Henry Kissinger & the rise of china Edited by Sanjay Barua & Rahul Sharma harper collins Rs.799 Pages 295
-Dilip Thakore
February 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of a historic meeting in Beijing, China, between US President Richard Nixon and China’s Chairman Mao Zedong in 1972, which future historians may well mark as […]
The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State by Josy Joseph Published by Westland Books Rs. 699 Pages 306
-Anil Thakore
Up until the year 2012, barring a two year blip in the Emergency period (1975-76), India was widely acknowledged as free and democratic, and ranked among the top 30 countries worldwide in the indices of […]
Red Roulette by Desmond Shum Published by Simon & Schuster Rs.2000 Pages 310
-Dilip Thakore
There’s no shortage of admirers of the Red China development model of socio-economic growth in India and world over. Admittedly, by any yardstick the dizzying growth of our unfriendly neighbour, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) — with whom we share a […]
Reproductive Politics & the Making of Modern India Mytheli Sreenivas
Women Unlimited
Rs.875 Pages 274
Politically correct, influential people in policy making circles in the West don’t talk any more of the ‘yellow peril’, or use phrases such as ‘population explosion’ and metaphors like the population bomb. At the same time, partly due to the very […]
Home in the World: A Memoir -Amartya Sen
Allen Lane
Rs.899
Pages 464
Nobel economics laureate (1998), and quintessential argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen comes across as a true citizen of the world in his newly penned memoir. Traversing continents, he is as much at home in Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Trinity College Cambridge, as in […]
Club you to death Anuja Chauhan Harper collins india Rs.399 Pages 432
Anuja Chauhan’s new novel is set around a seemingly simple murder perpetrated in the Delhi Turf Club, a space for a privileged set who believe that they are the glamourous last standing people who will protect Delhi from falling at the hands of what […]
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